Landmarks of English LiteratureD. Appleton and Company, 1889 - 460 Seiten |
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... literary man is an artist , using his words and phrases with the same felicity and care as a painter uses his colours ; and whoever aspires to win literary fame must pay the closest attention not only to what he says , but to how he ...
... literary man is an artist , using his words and phrases with the same felicity and care as a painter uses his colours ; and whoever aspires to win literary fame must pay the closest attention not only to what he says , but to how he ...
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... literary puzzles which are to be found in his writings , and which have perplexed genera- tions of commentators and evoked hundreds of volumes ? How many ingenious and elaborate studies on " Hamlet " would be shown to be as the baseless ...
... literary puzzles which are to be found in his writings , and which have perplexed genera- tions of commentators and evoked hundreds of volumes ? How many ingenious and elaborate studies on " Hamlet " would be shown to be as the baseless ...
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... Literary men alike influence and are influenced by their time ; and as no history of a country can be considered complete which ignores the influence exerted by its literature , so any literary history which ignores the currents of ...
... Literary men alike influence and are influenced by their time ; and as no history of a country can be considered complete which ignores the influence exerted by its literature , so any literary history which ignores the currents of ...
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... literary fashions which pre- vailed in their time . Shakespeare's tendency to indulge in puns and verbal quibbles , which mars some of his finest pas- sages , was , no doubt , due not so much to any natural inclina- tion as because he ...
... literary fashions which pre- vailed in their time . Shakespeare's tendency to indulge in puns and verbal quibbles , which mars some of his finest pas- sages , was , no doubt , due not so much to any natural inclina- tion as because he ...
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... literary bypaths sometimes come across forgotten writers in whom they find a certain tone of manner or feeling which gives them , in their eyes , more attrac- tiveness than is possessed by writers whose praises are echoed by thousands ...
... literary bypaths sometimes come across forgotten writers in whom they find a certain tone of manner or feeling which gives them , in their eyes , more attrac- tiveness than is possessed by writers whose praises are echoed by thousands ...
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Seite 88 - I modestly but freely told him ; and, after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found...
Seite 68 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Seite 81 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Seite 52 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise thou hast persuaded; what none have dared thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Seite 75 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Seite 76 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former.
Seite 48 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What, may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case, I read it in thy looks; thy languished grace, To me, that feel the like, thy state descries.
Seite 10 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Seite 121 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Seite 75 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.